How a reporter spent two years trying to fix the gender imbalance in his stories (The Atlantic)
When Ed Yong started tracking the gender balance of sources in his stories in 2016, just 24 percent of the sources he quoted were women, and 35 percent of the stories include no female sources at all. Surprised by those numbers, Yong has spent the last two years trying to fix the gender imbalance in his stories. Yong explains how he went about this: He doesn’t stop finding sources for a story until his list includes at least several women, and he tracks how he’s doing with a spreadsheet. Four months after he started tracking the gender balance, women were representing 50 percent of the sources in his stories — it “has stayed roughly there ever since,” Yong says.

UK Prime Minister Theresa May is launching an investigation into whether state intervention is needed to preserve local and national newspapers(The Guardian)
The decline of local journalism is a threat to democracy, U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May said as she announced an investigation into whether state intervention is needed to preserve local and national newspapers. The investigation will examine the rise of “clickbait” news, along with whether the government or industry could do more to undermine the commercial incentives to produce “clickbait.” The investigation will also review whether content creators, rather than platforms, are getting enough of the revenue from digital advertising. “When trusted and credible news sources decline, we can become vulnerable to news which is untrustworthy,” May said. “So to address this challenge to our public debate we will launch a review to examine the sustainability of our national and local press. It will look at the different business models for high-quality journalism.”

‘Russian trolls ran wild on Tumblr and the company refuses to say anything about it’ (BuzzFeed News)
During the 2016 presidential election, Tumblr accounts run by Russian trolls were generating “hundreds of thousands of interactions with anti–Hillary Clinton, pro–Bernie Sanders content,” analysis by researcher Jonathan Albright and BuzzFeed News finds. These trolls posed as black activists, creating interactions with content that ranged from calling Clinton a “monster” to supporting Sanders to “decrying racial injustice and police violence in the U.S.” Albright says on the findings: “The evidence we’ve collected shows a highly engaged and far-reaching Tumblr propaganda-op targeting mostly teenage and twenty-something African Americans. This appears to have been part of an ongoing campaign since early 2015.” Notably, Tumblr and its parent company Oath did not respond to emails with questions from BuzzFeed News — but “tracking software shows the emails were opened more than 290 times, and the included links were clicked more than 70 times,” Craig Silverman writes.